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SLOW TIMES · 17 APRIL 2010
After a super productive March, April has slowed things down a bit. I blame Mass Effect 2. I actually got the game the day it came out in February, but put off playing it and then slowly got into it. Over the past few weeks, I really got consumed. Plus I finally bought a Playstation3 to use as a blu-ray player and have been messing with that as well. The weekends are really my best time to work on this film but even then I haven't been feeling the urge. I'm really close to finishing at least one animation pass on all the shots in this section, but seemed to have stalled out a bit. I did manage to do a little splining on shot 17 additions. Simple stuff but still a bit tricky. I wanted to have the focus on the Robot character and only really have the Alien in the shot for hook up purposes. His first head turn feels a little mechanical to me, might have to go back and give that some lovin'.  cookie_shot_17_anim_v12 IT'S A BUDDY PICTURE · 5 APRIL 2010
I liked the way shot 17 looked by itself, however, it seemed to not work quite right in the cut. Too much space to sell as one character only and I didn't want to zoom in any further. As a result I decided to add the Alien to hopefully hook up with the surrounding shots. cookie_shot_17_anim_v10 EASTER EGGS · 4 APRIL 2010 Another month down. Can't believe it's already April. I really had to force myself to sit down and block shot 18. It's the last shot in the hallway sequence which means every shot has been touched in animation and I didn't want to waste the weekend by not doing anything. Some shots I want to go back and polish a bit more, and shot 17 looks like it will need either a camera change or the Alien added to properly hook up with 16 and 18. I'm still facing a little bit of a mental block on what to do with the "look" of the environments for this short. Part of me is wondering if I should just keep animating instead since there are still so many shots left, about 40. At the very least I should probably try to get in one short per week. Doesn't really sound like much, but it is amazingly difficult to find the energy while working a full time job.  cookie_shot_18_anim_v3 |
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